Retrenched lawyer Garfield sets up a new business offering stressed-out high achievers a four-day program to help them get their lives back on track. He does this through a wellness retreat at a resort hotel in Noosa on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. An idyllic setting with a dark history. He guides six participants as their issues are identified and discussed in group and individual sessions. They are encouraged to be open and honest in all their deliberations and to collaboratively seek solutions. In contrast, Garfield is deceiving his wife and the participants with his secret lover Claudia, a psychiatrist, who joins him at the resort and furtively watches the participants.Marcus, a retired judge; Callum, a physiotherapist; Bryony, a professor of philosophy; Felicity, a family lawyer; Carlo, a former managing partner in big law; and Larry, a MAGA-loving MP, come together. Passions are aroused and secrets exposed as personal and wider issues are discussed. Tensions boil over at the final debrief.Who are the eagles, who are the doves, and who are the vultures? You decide!
In the sequel to Eagles, Doves and Vultures, Garfield must escape the wreckage left by the last wellness retreat he conducted. He seeks to save his business while at the same time resetting his personal life.
His business is restructured with changes in ownership and management and renamed “Executive Overhaul”. It offers a more integrated programme of activities, a better guide/participant ratio and added security.
Garfield struggles to reconnect with his children and adjust to being with his new partner, Claudia, 24/7 as the two take steps to promote their business.
A new retreat is organised at the same resort hotel in Noosa. Four new participants assemble. Prudence, a current affairs reporter with Channel 66; Effie, a financial adviser in cryptocurrency; Max, a pastor at Christ Alive Church and a doomsday prepper; and Frankie, a 20-year-old indigenous Australian Rules Football prodigy with new club Canberra Cavaliers.
A series of incendiary events merge, creating a firestorm which forces the participants and the operators to make difficult choices. Some emerge stronger; some continue to struggle.
The frailty of the human condition is explored. The road to redemption is not always easy to find or to follow.
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